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...or salutary results. CHAPTER IX. Continuance of passive pleasure, it should never be forgotten, is, under all conditions of mortal existence, an impossibility....true question is, not what we gain, but what we do. THOMAS CARLYLE. I cannot forget thee, thy smile haunts me yet, And thy dark earnest eyes bright as...

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...Goethe's hands. To rend an author we must be able to see his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it. Everywhere in life, the true question is, not what we gain, but what we do. No book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. Goethe's works especially...

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...was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself. r. BURKE— OH Pitt's First Speech. Everywhere in life, the true question is, not what we gain, but what we do. a. CARLYLE— Essays. Goethe's Helena. It is in general more prolitable to reckon up our defects than...

...THINKERS. ACTION. Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and deeds alone suffice. ( Whittier. Everywhere in life, the true question is, not what we gain, but what we do. (Carlyle. A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are...